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Vol. 19, No. 6, November/December 1995

The GAO Roswell Report and Congressman Schiff: The report's negative findings were downplayed.
Philip J. Klass

Why Creationists Don't Go to Psychic Fairs: The various pseudoscientific beliefs cannot be explained as if they were a single phenomenon. At least two major categoriesÑcreationism and fantastic scienceÑexist, and they are causally distinct.
John H. Taylor, Raymond A. Eve, and Francis B. Harrold
Eyewitness Testimony and the Paranormal: Experiments show that beliefs and expectations can lead people to be unreliable witnesses of supposedly paranormal phenomena. Investigators must carefully assess testimony, regardless of whether it reinforces or opposes their own beliefs.
Richard Wiseman, Matthew Smith, and Jeff Wiseman
Objectivity and Repeatability in Science: Schools need to emphasize the necessity of controlling for the influence of the experimenters' beliefs, desires, and expectations in tests of claims.
Michael Mussachia
Culture-Bound Syndromes as Fakery: The curious and bizarre behavior known as latah has been classified as an exotic syndrome. But evidence indicates it is more likely to be a culturally based deception.
Robert E. Bartholomew